MARKS AND SPENCER

Marks and Spencer is a British shop which offers also clothes for elderly people. Some of my senior students like shopping in Marks and Spencer. Let’s have a look at history and products of Marks and Spencer.

MARKS AND SPENCER

Marks and Spencer (M&S) is a famous¹ shop.It comes from the year of 1884.Michael Marks, a Polish immigrant, and Thomas Spencer from England, are the founders² of the shop.

M&S shops sell shoes and clothes for men, women and children,including³ elegant clothes for the elderly.You can buy cheap everyday⁴ clothes in the shop, but also expensive suits⁵ or dresses⁶.

Big M&S shops also sell products for your living room and kitchen, so you can even buy pots⁷ there.Some M&S shops also have British food: cakes, marmalades, biscuits⁸, but also sausages and meat.

There are 1,000 M&S shops in the world, in forty different countries.In Prague, there are ten M&S shops, for example in Wenceslas Square.

Vocabulary: ¹slavný| ²zakladatel| ³včetně| ⁴každodenní| ⁵oblek| ⁶šaty| ⁷hrnec| ⁸sušenka
Language notes: the elderly=starší lidé|living room=obývací pokoj|British food=britské
potraviny|in the world=na světě|Wenceslas Square=Václavské náměstí
Sources: marksandspencer.com|en.wikipedia.org.

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